Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands Project Design Workshop 30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Group feedback - site selection (Stanley Wood) This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4). Principles to keep in mind:
High level indicators were a bit lost in the site selection;
"Push and pull": high potential, high opportunities - the dynamics between locations could become part of the project research methodology;
Demand and supply: We need a diagnosis of problems, not only for storytelling but also to legitimize why we are working there;
Livelihood integration unit in the MoA: We need to look at systems and pull diagnoses together as helpful frameworks for our supply side to respond;
Site selection:
There is a whole spectrum of legume opportunities etc. (???);
Nobody mentioned teff but it has tremendous opportunities on the livestock side;
Difficult to tell much about longer term but we would like to have a group of Addis-based people to put together a team mixing gov't, CG, other local institutions etc. on development and research sides to build advice and direction, come up with specific suggestions for a framework including geographic, household, gradients' items. A certain approval mechanism could then be elaborated;
Site selection is an ongoing process over the next few years;
Short term:
3-4 specific locations based on systems based on existence of research capacities and opportunities;
For longer term process, we need to have all information and clear understanding of where research partners are working e.g. CRSPs, SLP etc.
Project Design Workshop
30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Group feedback - site selection (Stanley Wood)
This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).
Principles to keep in mind:
- High level indicators were a bit lost in the site selection;
- "Push and pull": high potential, high opportunities - the dynamics between locations could become part of the project research methodology;
- Demand and supply: We need a diagnosis of problems, not only for storytelling but also to legitimize why we are working there;
- Livelihood integration unit in the MoA: We need to look at systems and pull diagnoses together as helpful frameworks for our supply side to respond;
Site selection:- There is a whole spectrum of legume opportunities etc. (???);
- Nobody mentioned teff but it has tremendous opportunities on the livestock side;
- Difficult to tell much about longer term but we would like to have a group of Addis-based people to put together a team mixing gov't, CG, other local institutions etc. on development and research sides to build advice and direction, come up with specific suggestions for a framework including geographic, household, gradients' items. A certain approval mechanism could then be elaborated;
- Site selection is an ongoing process over the next few years;
Short term: